Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge took leave of Wisconsin in three ways: He invited the newsgatherers and photographers to watch him shoot clay pigeons (29 out of 37); he arranged for a simple farewell speech on the steps of the high school in Superior; he fished in the law-immune trout pools of the Pierce Estate every last moment that he could, letting others pack the trunks...
...income, now that she has grown accustomed to spaciousness? Architects were anxious. Before the White House, the Coolidges were content to live in hotels. Before that it was the two-family house ($32.50 per month) on Massasoit Street. Believers in the Grand Manner almost wished that there was a law providing that an outgoing President and First Lady should be established, by the People they have served, in a setting of suitable richness and proportions for the rest of their days. In the present case, the President will be remembered as the taciturn little man whose Administration was accompanied...
...While it is true that Coolidge has made a farce of enforcement, yet Hoover definitely promises that he will not allow any tampering with the Eighteenth Amendment or the Volstead law."-John A. McSparran of Lancaster, Penna., withdrawing as a Democratic candidate for Congress...
...Postmaster General New retorted to Mayor Walker that only obscene matter is barred entirely from the mails by law; "scurrilous, slanderous" matter may be mailed unless written on postcards, envelopes, wrappers...
...parents. In (none too authentic) pidgin English, dusky King Holiday confided to a client whose "factories" he kept well stocked with slaves: "All captains come to river tell me you king and you big mans stop we trade, and s'pose dat true, what we do? ... We law is, s'pose some of we child go bad and we no can sell 'em, we father must kill dem own child. And s'pose trade be done, we must kill too much child same...